@drkeithsiau I would think NMS and treatment with dantrolene or bromocriptine. Also would consider continuing broad spectrum antibiotics till culture results
It's Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday and in 1980 he faced questions from an audience of young viewers about his life and television career. Lesley Judd hosted the show, and Attenborough talked about making a connection with gorillas, and his concerns for the environment.
Absolutely! Chia seeds can absorb up to 27x their weight in water. Because of this, patients with a history of dysphagia or known oesophageal strictures should be aware that chia seeds should only be consumed when they have had the ability to fully expand in liquid prior to ingestion.
If the oesophagus becomes impacted with chia seeds, they can be hard to remove!
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The BBC just released a new adaptation of Lord of the Flies, the classic novel by William Golding. It's beautifully made, but it's still telling the wrong story.
A few years ago, I went looking for the *real* Lord of the Flies. I wanted to know: has it ever actually happened? Have kids ever been shipwrecked on a deserted island?
It took me a year of research, but I found it. In 1965, six boys from a boarding school in Tonga stole a boat, got caught in a storm, and drifted for eight days without food or water. They washed up on 'Ata, a remote, uninhabited island in the Pacific. They stayed there for 15 months, and what happened on that island was the exact opposite of William Golding's novel.
These boys set up a small commune. They built a food garden, stored rainwater in hollowed-out tree trunks, created a gym with improvised weights, and built a badminton court. One of them, Stephen (who would later become an engineer) managed to start a fire using two sticks. They kept it burning the entire time.
Of course they fought too. But then they argued, they had a rule: go to opposite ends of the island, cool down, then come back and apologize. As one of them told me: ‘That's how we stayed friends.’
Back home, everyone assumed that the boys – Luke, Stephen, Sione, David, Kolo and Mano — were dead. When they were finally discovered by an Australian captain named Peter Warner, he radioed their names to Tonga. After twenty minutes, a tearful response came back: ‘You found them! These boys have been given up for dead. Funerals have been held. If it's them, this is a miracle!’
Peter commissioned a new ship, hired all six boys as his crew, and named the boat the Ata, after the island where he found them. They remained friends for the rest of their lives – Peter and Mano even became soulmates. I tracked them down, and it became one of the central chapters of my book Humankind.
Here's what struck me most: William Golding (the author of Lord of the Flies) was a troubled man, an alcoholic who once said ‘I have always understood the Nazis, because I am of that sort by nature.’ I think he was projecting his own darkness onto children. And we turned it into a lesson about human nature that we teach to millions of kids around the world.
I think the real lesson is the opposite. When real children found themselves alone on a real island, they didn't descend into savagery. They cooperated, they took care of each other, they survived.
I'm not saying that the Tongan castaways were representative of all kids everywhere. But I am saying that every kid who has to read or watch the fictional Lord of the Flies also deserves to know what actually happened when it played out in real life.
Stories are never just stories. We become the stories that we tell ourselves.
रूग्ण निर्मिती कमी व्हावी म्हणून काम करणाऱ्या डॉक्टरांची महाराष्ट्रात मोठी परंपरा आहे.
स्वतःचा व्यवसाय सांभाळून रुग्णांपर्यंत योग्य शास्त्रीय माहिती पोहिचवणाऱ्या डॉक्टर परंपरेत एक मोलाची भर पडली आहे ती डॉ विनायक हिंगणे (बुलढाणा) यांच्या निमित्ताने.
" टाइप २ डाइबेटिस " या विषयावर त्यांनी उत्तम संग्राह्य लिखाण प्रसिद्ध केले आहे -
क्रेविंग
खाण्याचे व्यसन
-डॉ विनायक हिंगणे (@WEnayak)
डॉक्टर असलेल्या वर्गमित्राचे पुस्तक.
क्रेविंग म्हणजेच खाण्याची अनिवार ओढ किंवा व्यसन म्हणा हवं तर. अनिर्बंध खाणे का आणि कसे वाढत जाते आणि त्यामुळे होत जाणारे अपाय आणि ते होऊ नये यासाठी सुचविलेले उपाय हे ह्या पुस्तकाचे सार आहे
@docbhooshan This is cool. Though, I fear that the multi disciplinary part of it might misguide some people. It might give an excuse for parents to admit the kid in multiple classes. 😁
@rashlessdoctor शरीराची प्रतीकार शक्ती स्वतः शरीरावर हल्ला करते. दंगा झाल्यावर पोलिस नागरिकांवर लाठी चालवतात व त्यात काही निरपराध लोकांना फटके बसतात. असेच या आजारात होते.
@docbhooshan पुण्यात आमच्या मेडिसिन च्या गुरुवर्य मंडळींचे हेच निरीक्षण होते. त्यांची कारणमीमांसा थोडी वेगळी होती. ज्येष्ठ मंडळींच्या सामाजिक आरोग्याचा तो एक भाग आहे असे त्यांचे म्हणणे होते.